Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-26
LOCAL RREYITIEs.

|
! The Board of Fire Commissioners will
meet this evening.
The Reno train commences running to-
day, and will be a great convenience.
Rev. DR.. Frost delivered his interesting
and instructing lecture upon yosemite"
| to a good audience at the NJ. Z. Church
| South last evening.
| Sheriff Inflow brought down from Marys-
| vile yesterday, en- route to the State
Prison al Folsom, All Fong, who is to
serve term OF one year for an assault to
murder
Yesterday Constables Carroll, of Stock
| ton, and Walker, of Lathrop, returned
| home from Marysville, where they sue
ceeded in recovering a quantity of goods
recently stolen at Lathrop.
! The Governor has appointed the follow
| ing Notaries Public John W. Willy,
| Stockton L. A. Morgan, Mendocino L.
| w. McClenohan, Milton, Calaveras county;
W. L. Master, Susanville, Lassen county.
| 4 number of persons were at the depot
last evening with the desire 10 see Jimmy
! Hope, the notorious burglar, who was ex-
| pected to be on the east-bound express
train from San Francisco, but he did not
come.
There will be private. picnic given by
Sacramento Council, Order of Chosen
| Friends, at Richmond Grove tomorrow, to
which members of Sunset and Friendship
| Councils and visiting members of the Or
Ger are invited.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 64.7o, which is go cooler
| than the average for that day during nine
years The highest and lowest tempera-
ture was $50 and 400 with fresh southerly
| winds and clear weather.
An apron and necktie social, with an en-
tertainment and refreshments, will be held
IN Washington school-house, Perkins sta
ton, Brighton, the evening of May 2Sth.
The entertainment will be free A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
A Raymond & Whitcomb excursion
party, occupying six sleepers, arrived from
San Francisco at s o'clock last evening.
and remained here over night. They
continue their trip eastward at o'clock
this morning.
The traction engine that has attracted
considerable attention in front of H. II.
LinnelFs store, On j street, got up steam
| yesterday and took spin around the
block. 1t will be worked about o'clock
tins evening, to show its ability to haul
heavy loads
i The steamer Neponset arrived from the
upper Sacramento yesterday with produce,
and the steamer d. Z. Knight, from Marys-
vile, en- route TO San Francisco, with mer-
chandise; the steamer San Joaquin No. 4
arrived from San Francisco, with merchan-
| disc and lumber.
| a dispatch from Chico, dated Yesterday.
says that Deputy Sheriff Cone, of Sacra-
mento. - was thrown from horse near this
place this morning at O'Clock, while run
nlng his horse after two Cinnamon who
| stole Snow d Co.'S ore. Cone was brought
to this place in an insensible condition"
The case of Chas. E. Bishop, ex-countv
superintendent of Schools, VS.. The County
OF Sacramento, was tried in Justice Davis
Court yesterday, resulting in plaintiff re-
| covering judgment for $3.50, which he
claimed to be due for services performed as
Secretary of the county Board of Educa-
| ton.
| The Chief Signal officer wrote to Ser
| geant Barwick asking him where he desired
to be permanently located, and to name
three stations outside of Washington CITY
as his first, second and third choice. The
Sergeant replied, and named Sacramento as
first choice, San Diego as second, and Los
Angeles as third choice.
| Mrs. f. A. Mcdonald swore out a war
rant yesterday for the arrest of Mrs. Mary
ketchum for disturbing the peace. She
alleges that the latter applied such epithets
TO her that her husband became greatly
aggravated, causing him to commit the
battery upon Mrs. Ketchum for which the
latter had him arrested few days ago.
| A few evenings since, while Joseph Judd
was irrigating his grass plot, he was sur
prised to see little fish, about three inches
long and lively as cricket, come out of
| tnp hose IT anita
the little fellow had in his efforts to visit
the city-passing through the strainer of
the water works suction pipe the pump,
the stand pipe, mains, service pipe and
finally the garden hose.
| Andrew Crabb, barkeeper at the Apollo
| saloon, Seventh and L streets, had J. S.
| Wheeler arrested yesterday for battery.
He alleges that Wheeler visited the saloon
about O'Clock yesterday morning, had
two drinks, but neglected to pay for them,
and IN the dispute resulting struck Crabb
| twice on the head with loaded cane. in
| ficting severe scalp cuts, and also hit him
several times on the body.
Last evening D. Phillips with pocket
knife chased his wife into the Young
| Mems Christian Association rooms. utter
ing threats against her. A telephon;c
message was sent to the station house, and
officer Leavy went to see what the trouble
was, finding officers Farrell and Lowell
arrived before him. Phillips and wife
We're then apparently on very friendly
terms, but they were arrested for disturb
ing the peace nevertheless.
Among the graduates at Mills Seminary
yesterday was Miss Grace Wachhorst, OF
this city, who read q fine essay upon
Popular Superstitions, in which she re-
| ferred in condemnatory terms to religious
superstition, the belief in elves, dwarfs and
giants, and witchcraft. The belief in
fairies she characterized as a pleasant su-
persttion. Several queer superstitions OF
| the ignorant in some lands were enumera-
ted, and some of the popular foolish fan
cies in this country were also mentioned.
Education is trampling down these
wicked beliefs as fast as possible, but the
greatest hope is in Christian influence" she
concluded.